Several prominent Democrats were caught on camera participating in a progressive political video call which began with one speaker comparing America to a Nazi regime ruled by “dead-eye psychopaths” and “bloodthirsty imperialists.”
Participants on the call, which was hosted by Progressive Victory in March, included Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., whose name has been floated as a possible presidential contender, and several Democratic Socialists of America-endorsed candidates, including Abdul El-Sayed, Cori Bush and Darializa Avila Chevalier. A spokesperson for Khanna has since disavowed the speaker’s comments and said Khanna was not on the call at the time the remarks were made.
The virtual event, which also featured controversial streamer Hasan Piker, was titled “Choose Your Fighter” and was meant to highlight progressive politicians opposing the ongoing conflict in Iran.
At the start of the call, organizers introduced left-wing podcaster Kyle Kulinski, who they called an “up and comer” in the movement. Kulinski launched into a diatribe in which he accused the U.S. and Israel of “creating the fourth Reich.”
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“These are genuinely repulsive, disgusting, wretched, depraved human beings, okay? They enjoy the pain and the violence and the suffering and the death and the destruction that they inflict on the rest of the world,” Kulinski railed, adding, “It is absolutely accurate to compare these people to the worst criminals in history, to Mussolini, to Adolf Hitler.”
Kulinski claimed that “we have descended into fascism” and that the U.S. is “governed by dead-eye psychopaths and sociopaths and bloodthirsty imperialists.”
He asserted that “people need to come to terms with the fact that in this instance the U.S. government and the Israeli government, they are the terrorists … they are doing terrorism,” adding that “if Iran is off the table as a regional power that means Hezbollah can’t be funded, Hamas can’t be funded, the Houthis can’t be funded, like the Shia crescent falls and then you have nothing but regional domination for Israel.”
Kulinski also referred to the make America great again movement as “an imperialist fascist death cult,” saying, “It’s time to take them down.”
In response, a spokesperson for Canary Mission, an antisemitism watchdog, warned that Kulinski’s rhetoric evidences the growth of self-hatred for the U.S. on the part of the left.
“Kyle Kulinski’s speech at Progressive Victory’s online rally attended by prominent DSA and Democratic politicians indicates the hateful and anti-American ideas proliferating on the left,” the spokesperson said.
“Support for terrorist regimes and historical revisionism has no place in American politics,” the spokesperson continued, adding, “This level of extremism must be distanced from the Democratic Party.”
Meanwhile, Benjamin Gilbert-Lif, deputy executive director of Progressive Victory, told Fox News Digital that “we stand by the comments made by Kyle Kulinski” and confirmed that “they reflect the views of our community and of the many Jewish members of our national Leadership.”
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“We also question why anyone would consider the idea of a ‘Jewish State’ to be anything other than an explicit desire for an ethno-state,” Gilbert-Lif added. “PV stands against all ethno-states and at Choose Your Fighter sought to uplift voices that would push for the region to peacefully transition to a secular, one-state democracy where Israelis and Palestinians can coexist without artificially imposed borders or legal preferences toward one ethnicity dividing them.”
Sarah Drory, a spokesperson for Khanna, told Fox News Digital that “Ro Khanna has always believed America is an exceptional country and was not on at the time these remarks were made.”
She said that the congressman “joined for 5 minutes to speak and left” and added that “he obviously disagrees with them.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Bush, Sayed, Chevalier and Piker for comment.
Oliver Larkin, a progressive Democrat running for Congress in Florida whose campaign helped to organize the call, told Fox News Digital that the virtual event raised $40,000 for 20 “progressive anti-war candidates” nationwide.
He also charged that “Congress must reassert its constitutional war powers and bring accountability to this dangerous, lawless Trump administration.”
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Asked whether he stands by Kulinski’s statements, Larkin remarked, “The crimes of the Epstein class are depraved.”
He accused the Trump administration of “rather than enforcing U.S. and international law … continuing to fund an ongoing genocide.”
Fox News Digital also reached out to the White House and DSA for comment.
